From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 31 07:18:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25985 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25905 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:18:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (thirdeye@bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA28431 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA17615; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:18:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:18:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install overwrites bootsect In-Reply-To: <12303.904571644@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG perhaps this is a good place for an "Are you sure" dialog, yucky, but they are in other places in sysinstall. (espec if NT partitions are detected) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Actually, I can almost predict what he did (and the blame falls more > on the key binding scheme in libdialog than the user because I see it > all the time). He saw the boot manager menu with (*) Boot Manager > selected by default, and then he used the arrow key to go down to ( ) > None but then hit return (for OK) rather than SPACE to toggle the > radio menu's state. It wants a space. The docs say in several places > that it wants a space. Doesn't matter. People still move the cursor > to the option and then just hit return because they're used to that > model with other interfaces, and with libdialog what it does is drop > you six feet with a rope around your neck instead. Slightly different > way of doing things, our little libdialog, and it's a PITA. > > Just one more reason to hate libdialog, but probably still not enough > motivation to write a replacement. :) > > - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message